Are the Eclipse Committer Elections Too Long?

Chris Aniszczyk has called for a streamlining of the Eclipse Committer Elections
process.

Currently, the election period lasts for seven days, with the
intention of giving the community a chance to debate and discuss.
Aniszczyk states that although this process highlights Eclipse’s
meritocratic nature, he theorises that in most cases existing
committers have discussed the individual before calling an
election. He has rarely seen anyone voted down after an election
has been called.

I don’t like the process currently because I think it takes too
long for a committer to get elected and eventually get commit
rights to source control.

“How do other mature open source projects deal with this? How do
we make it better?” he asks. Is the current election process too
lengthy? Aniszczyk is currently calling for feedback at his blog.